- Creator
- Bradley, Henry Thorpe
- Call number
- Sc MG 85
- Physical description
- 25 items (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Henry Thorpe Bradley papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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Afro-American book collector and writer of verses and short stories. Bradley was born in Enfield, N.C. and moved to Brooklyn (N.Y.) during the 1920s. His published and unpublished works include: "Love and Mystery, a Tale in Rhyme" (1907), "A Printer's Dream" (n.d.), "Effusions of the Soul" (1917), "Marching to Berlin" (1918), "Ethiopian Women's Society of the Moon" (1926), "Out of the Depths" (1928), "In Defense, a Sketch for Broadcasting" (n.d.) and "A Catalog of Books of Modern First Editions and Old, Rare Editions" 1936. Correspondence, writings and printed matter documenting Henry Thorpe Bradley's activities as an African-American book collector and self-published author, during the first half of the twentieth century. Includes letters to the editors of several New York daily newspapers on racial biases in media reporting and the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini's Italian troops, typescripts of poems, short stories and essays, and a radioscript entitled "In Defense.".
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Provenance unknown, 1976Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor